While acquitting three people who were arrested for firing on a police team in 2019, the district court doubted the story of the police that “any sane person or accused who may be involved in other crimes would not take such an initiative.” The incident took place after firing at the police team.”
The Indian Express was reported ahead of time Acquitting the accused The bench of Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADSJ) Dr Ajit Atri on December 5 against Sukhdeep Kumar Sharma, Gurpreet Singh and Raman Kumar exposed the flaw in the prosecution’s story that fingerprints were taken from the gun but not sent to any laboratory. for analysis during the investigation, and found the claim that the police party fired in defense not “credible”.
The court also said that the incident alleged by the accused is suspicious because it is said that the accused fired at the police team on patrol without any provocation or action.
“Any sane person or accused who may be involved in other crimes would not initiate such an incident by firing on the police team while knowing full well that the police were outnumbered and still outnumbered.” “He came in front of the police team and fired,” the court said.
“This not only exposes the person to their identity, but also puts them at risk of being shot in the face of police retaliation.”
Pointing out the lacunae in the prosecution’s story, the court said, “In the evidence of prosecution witness No. 4 (Inspector Satwant Singh), the prosecution’s case is that on March 28, 2019, he was Inspector, CIA in-charge, Mohali and on that date he along with other police officers were on patrol of suspicious persons and Was in check. official vehicle.
According to the court, the prosecution witness number 4, Inspector Satwant Singh, was in charge of the police party, so the accused opened fire and attacked him. Other members of the police team also appeared in the witness box and gave statements in the framework of the prosecution case as stated by Satwant.
“The prosecution presented the case that the accused attacked the police team without any provocation by the police. The prosecution has tried to portray the correct position on the evidence regarding the alleged encounter, wherein the police party is said to have fired in the air in self-defence while the accused fired directly at the police party with an intention. Kill them,” the court noted.
“Undoubtedly, such cases are very serious in nature and the preamble of the law stipulates that strong evidence is required to punish the guilty more severely. Since it is an alleged case of attack on a police party, this crime is not less serious and it should be considered that such an incident took place after examining the evidence on file.”
The court also noted that since Randhir Singh, the owner of the house where the incident took place, was joined as a witness, the statement of no person was recorded to confirm how long the accused Gurpreet was living in his house.
It is mentioned that 16 shots were fired from both sides, but “fortunately or for any other reason, none of the members of the police team or the accused were injured”.
Incident On 28 March 2019, Inspector Satwant along with his team went to check and search for bad elements in government and private vehicles.
According to the prosecution, when the police team reached the gate of Randhir Singh’s two-storied house in Ballo Majra village of Mohali, three people standing on the second floor gallery of a house suddenly opened fire on the police. The party trying to kill them.
The police claimed that Gurpreet Singh opened fire after Sukhdeep Kumar Sharma alias Deep fired directly at the police team. After this, the police also fired in the air for security.
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